Sunday, March 24, 2024

Trump Defenders Dismiss All His Legal Problems As ‘Lawfare’

 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-defenders-dismiss-all-his-legal-problems-as-lawfare.html

The niftiest thing about the “lawfare” argument is that it can obliterate any willingness to look at the cases involving Trump in terms of their merits. Hush-money payments, defamation about a sexual assault, shady business practices, trying to overturn an election … no matter what the former president might have done, it’s all washed away by the malice of his enemies. The Washington Examiner’s veteran reporter Byron York, once a sober analyst of political developments, exemplifies the sweeping immunity afforded Trump by Republicans under the rubric of fighting “lawfare”:

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